Shawn McManus (b. June 30, 1958, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American artist who entered the comic book field in the early 1980s with work for Heavy Metal and DC Comics.
McManus gained wider attention when he illustrated two 1980s issues of Swamp Thing written by Alan Moore. He received a nomination, with Alan Moore, for a 1985 Jack Kirby award for "Pog" in Swamp Thing 32. The story, an inventive science fictional reinterpretation of Walt Kel...
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Shawn McManus (b. June 30, 1958, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American artist who entered the comic book field in the early 1980s with work for Heavy Metal and DC Comics.
McManus gained wider attention when he illustrated two 1980s issues of Swamp Thing written by Alan Moore. He received a nomination, with Alan Moore, for a 1985 Jack Kirby award for "Pog" in Swamp Thing 32. The story, an inventive science fictional reinterpretation of Walt Kelly's Pogo, was written by Moore specifically for McManus, who rose to the challenge with an appropriate Kellyesque art style.
Since then he has drawn issues of Omega Men, Batman, Doctor Fate and a pair of limited series about the witch Thessaly written by Bill Willingham. Randy Lander reviewed the debut issue of The Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad:
McManus also drew most of A Game of You for Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, and his other Sandman credits include The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales, The Sandman Presents: Thessaly, Witch for Hire, The...
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